Credits

F16-4003
"What in the World" 4
UPMAA WCAU TV
(CBS,
Philadelphia)
Froelich
Rainey
16mm film


Features guests: Carlton Coon, Jacques Lipchitz and Vincent Price.

Shotlist

Film Print of CBS-broadcasted television program, filmed at WCAU TV Studios.
"What in the World was the Museum's popular weekly half-hour television program which was first seen in 1951 and which ran for 14 years." Froelich Rainey, moderator; Carleton Coon, Jacques Lipchitz, and Vincent Price, panelists.

Item#1
Wood carving in the form of a crocodile;New Guinea; placed in time early 20th century;painted red; apart of the house; symbolizes danger-"makes you brave"

Item#2
Ancient limestone figure of a hippopotamus with two heads (mother and baby); Thebes, Egypt; dated between 1st cent. BC-1st cent. AD; Ptolemaic Roman period; found in the Temple of Tod; represents the goddess Taueret

Item#3
Mask; Ivory Coast (West Africa); late 19th century;used by females in traditional dances; represents spirits; Baule tribe

Item#4
Spear point (bronze); Scandinavia; 10,000-5,000 BC Neolithic period;

Item#5
Ancient animal head made of volcanic stone; represent crocodile; Costa Rica; 12th-15th cent. AD

Item#6
Painted pottery jar in the shape of a human with hump back; Panama; 14th-15th cent AD

Item#7
Tobacco pipe; Borneo; end of the 19th century